** For the full study including charts and graphs, please download the PDF** When Connecticut policymakers adopted an individual income tax in 1991, many hoped that it would take pressure off state sales taxes and local property taxes. Sales tax rates, hiked in the preceding years, came down—but the Nutmeg ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on businesses, most acutely on small businesses. While businesses in the hospitality, restaurant, aviation, and retail industries appear to be the most impacted, all small businesses are struggling to survive. The following are policies and strategies that will provide much needed aid ...

Executive Summary By its own measures, the Connecticut State Teachers’ Retirement System has unfunded liabilities of almost $17 billion; the system has 52 cents for every dollar needed to pay for benefits accrued by its members as of June 30, 2018. The gap between what the system owes for accrued benefits and ...

**For the full report, please download the PDF** Connecticut’s lawmakers derive their power from the people, but too often the people are in the dark about what their elected representatives are doing with that power. State leaders usually welcome public participation and have taken action to encourage it. For example, ...

** For the full study including charts and graphs, please download the PDF** Yankee Letter Across Connecticut, the teacher pension system is not working for teachers, taxpayers or children. And it has the potential to fail current and future retirees if it is not equitably and carefully reformed – soon.  ...

**To read the full report, please download the PDF**   We end the 2019 legislative session with a mixture of relief (as bad as it was, it could have been even worse!) and regret (because there are new laws that will make life more difficult for our state’s taxpayers and ...